Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...

In some older versions of Microsoft Word, such as Word 2003, you had to add a toolbar to Word to convert documents to the PDF format. Word 2010, however, has built-in PDF functionality. This makes it ...

Reader Barbara Van Gorder misses some of the cosmetic features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. She writes: In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste.

If you’re a writer, student, or anyone else constrained by word counts, you’re probably a regular user of Microsoft Word’s handy Word Count feature (which is accessible in the Tools menu). Wouldn’t it ...

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m new to Office 2007. And much as I like it for the most part, a few features seem hell-bent on annoying me. One of them is Word 2007’s little on-the-spot editing toolbar, ...